The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IVH. G. Bohn, 1852 |
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... Egyptians . " The LXX and Vulgate , with the Syriac , Chaldee , Samaritan , Coptic , and Persian all agree in this interpreta- tion of Exod . iii . 22 , and xii . 35 , 36. The idea of dishonesty so uni- versally attached to this ...
... Egyptians . " The LXX and Vulgate , with the Syriac , Chaldee , Samaritan , Coptic , and Persian all agree in this interpreta- tion of Exod . iii . 22 , and xii . 35 , 36. The idea of dishonesty so uni- versally attached to this ...
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... Egyptians embalmed and preserved all the animals they adored ; and in the Royal Egyptian Museum at Berlin are some mummies of the sacred beetle . In these instances of the worship of animals , however , it may be questioned whether the ...
... Egyptians embalmed and preserved all the animals they adored ; and in the Royal Egyptian Museum at Berlin are some mummies of the sacred beetle . In these instances of the worship of animals , however , it may be questioned whether the ...
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... Egyptian , and Indian antiquity which have come down to us , and the modern investigation of the mythi of the ancients in general , abundantly evince that it was the custom with mankind , at periods of very remote antiquity , to couch ...
... Egyptian , and Indian antiquity which have come down to us , and the modern investigation of the mythi of the ancients in general , abundantly evince that it was the custom with mankind , at periods of very remote antiquity , to couch ...
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... Egyptian priests , but also that he was truly informed by them respecting their rites and ceremonies . Both of these occur in the very passages ( Diod . Sic . Bib . Hist . Wess . § 92 , 96 ) in which is delivered the statement alluded ...
... Egyptian priests , but also that he was truly informed by them respecting their rites and ceremonies . Both of these occur in the very passages ( Diod . Sic . Bib . Hist . Wess . § 92 , 96 ) in which is delivered the statement alluded ...
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... Egyptians , as repre- sented to Diodorus by the priests , is a notion which rests , it will be perceived , upon their testimony alone ; and that it is untrue various considerations concur to evince . From our present knowledge of the ...
... Egyptians , as repre- sented to Diodorus by the priests , is a notion which rests , it will be perceived , upon their testimony alone ; and that it is untrue various considerations concur to evince . From our present knowledge of the ...
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